Adviser Did The Right Thing

Opinion - LETTER FROM READERS

PARENTS AND school officials at South Lake High School were angered when the student newspaper printed an ad for a gay, lesbian and bisexual dating service.

Several denounced the newspaper adviser for allowing the ad, which referred students to a Web site where they could ``meet each other and build relationships.''

These same school officials and parents of teens were no doubt horrified by the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, the young gay man in Wyoming who had his skull bashed in and was left tied to a fence post to die. They probably wonder where young people such as the men who murdered Shepard acquire such virulent homophobia.

I suggest these decent, upstanding, virtuous parents and school officials look in the mirror.

As for the teacher who OK'd the ad, the only thing she is guilty of is not being a bigot.